right permission set for /tmp
Dave Mitchell
davem at iabyn.com
Tue Jul 3 22:45:00 UTC 2007
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:35:39PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >ll -d /tmp
> >drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 2007-07-03 16:09 /tmp
> >
> >
> >
> I follow the owner has rwx and the group has rwx but the World has rwt.
> I'm not sure what t is but I will find out.
It's the sticky bit - means only the file owner can delete any files in the
directory - it's set using chmod 1777 /tmp
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